Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the Spirit of the Panthers.
In the of Assata Shakur.
We make this movement freedom
for all those who been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There were and sirens, gunshots firin
Cover your as I describe a scene so violent
like a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against flesh
No room to rest, pain each breath
Shot wit her hands up
Police questioned but shot before she
One Panther lost his life, the ran for his
Scandalous the police as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, hold on
to life. She she'd live with no arm
what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
They moved her room to room-she tell by the light
Handcuffed tight to the bed, her skin it bit
Put to her head, every word she got hit
"Who shot the trooper?" asked her
Put mace in her eyes, to blast her
Her mind raced till things got
Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best who got killed
She got chills, they told her: that's where she would be
Hurt mixed wit was a reflex
They and denied visits from her lawyer
But she was as they tried to destroy her
If it wasn't for german nurse they woulda served her worse
I read sister's story, knew that it deserved a verse
I wonder what happen if that woulda been me?
All this shit so we be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your Power and is beautiful.
May God bless Soul.

(Common)
It seemed like the middle of the night the law awakened her
cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her
Though she knew,
made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
Arrived to Prison about six inna morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the second in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the of a prison wit all males
And the smell of misery, seatless toilets and
She'd exercise, (paint?,) and to read
Two years hole. Her soul grew weak
Away from so long she forgot how to speak
She discovered is a unspoken sound
And a is a wall and can be broken down
Found peace in the Panthers she on trial with
One of the brothers she had a with
The foulness would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed
Held tight, knowing the fight would live through this
In need of a doctor, her stomach she's bleed
Out of this situation a girl was
Separated from her, left to the Revolution
And to attack hate
Cause federal and state was for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with and court dates
They fabricated cases, hoping one stick
And said she robbed places that exist
In the midst of threats on her and being caged with Aryan whites
Through dark of hate she carried the light
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All of this so we could be free.
Yeah, I often wonder would happen if that woulda been me?
All of this so we could be free, so dig it, people-

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
North Carolina her grandmother would bring
news that she had had a
Her dreams always meant what they them to mean
What made them real was the in between
She that Assata was free in they old house in Queens
The fact they always came true was the thing
Assata had been convicted of a murder she done
Medical evidence she couldna shot the gun
It's for her to see the sun from the other side
Time for her daughter to be by her side
Time for this Beautiful Woman to become soft
Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or
She untangled the and escaped the pain
How she broke out of prison I never explain
And to this day they try to get to her
but free with political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're from the same mud, Assata.
We the same Blood, Assata, yeah.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about
I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom
than about what it is, I've never been free.
I can only share my vision you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is-- is the right to grow, is the to
blossom.
is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do what you do. (fade out)